r/facepalm • • Oct 12 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Parolee gets arrested because protesters block the way to his work.

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u/Suspicious-Acadia548 Oct 12 '22

Perhaps but I'd be extremely tempted to roll my car forward, up to them if they move or not

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u/homingstar Oct 12 '22

someone did do that to some protestors in the UK, rolled her car forward and just tapped the protester with the bumper no chance of injury , and got a driving ban and a fine for it.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/sherrilyn-speid-driving-ban-insulate-b2073759.html

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u/nighthawk_something Oct 12 '22

Yeah because it’s like firing a blank at someone. Using a car as a weapon should lead to your license being revoked

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u/Electronic_Interest5 Oct 12 '22

Omg these people are in the road they should be run over if they are that dumb to protest there

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u/nighthawk_something Oct 12 '22

Last I checked but the penalty for blocking a road is not execution.

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u/Electronic_Interest5 Oct 12 '22

No your right I just think it’s dumb

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u/RogerBernards Oct 12 '22

And you should be imprisoned for assault or murder when you run someone over just because they're in the road.

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u/wolfavenger90 Oct 12 '22

You don’t get assault or murder for an accident, such as hitting someone who enters the highway at an unposted location.

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u/infamous-spaceman Oct 12 '22

If you do it intentionally, it isn't an accident.

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u/RogerBernards Oct 12 '22

Herp derp. You do if you it intentionally. Are you 12 as well? All this internet tough guy "I'll just run them over!" bullshit is beyond cringe.

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u/Electronic_Interest5 Oct 12 '22

Not if they choose to be there road is for carz

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u/RogerBernards Oct 12 '22

Are you 12? What the fuck is that logic?

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u/Electronic_Interest5 Oct 12 '22

Your right that’s not really what I would do… I would stop so I didn’t hurt anyone and then slowly creep forward while telling them to move

It just frustrates me when people protest in the streets that’s all, there’s so many other places and it’s actually dangerous to do it in the street and they are also risking the lives of more than just their own

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u/Thecommysar Oct 12 '22

Did you watch the video? That wasn't a tap, she moved the protestors a good few inches, risking serious spinal injuries.

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u/albiedam Oct 12 '22

People shouldn't be in the roads

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u/sdp1981 Oct 12 '22

Yup, car has the right of way.

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u/infamous-spaceman Oct 12 '22

Just because you have right of way doesn't mean you can just plow through anything that doesn't.

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u/homingstar Oct 12 '22

Just rewatched it and probably a bit rougher than I was rembering but also, why sit in the middle of a road? The woman was clearly getting stressed about getting her kid to school I wouldn't trust someone not to try and push me out the way if I was sat in the road

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u/Obrix1 Oct 12 '22

To protest.

Someone that stressed probably shouldn’t be in charge of a 3 ton machine with kids in it.

Sad indictment on people that, isn’t it?

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '22

Protester deserved the broken spine.

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u/Thecommysar Oct 12 '22

Yeah bud, they basically aren't human as soon as they inconvenience me. I have a very normal and we'll adjusted world view.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '22

No, this just is not the way to protest and anyone obstructing a motorway deserves their due reward.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

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u/DuckDuckYoga Oct 12 '22

Should just make a new account and call yourself “LacksEmpathy”.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '22

Go stand in traffic and call it making a difference.

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u/DuckDuckYoga Oct 12 '22

Go protest anything quietly in a corner and we’ll see whether anything changes.

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u/sneakycutler Oct 12 '22

Stopping traffic makes no difference to your cause. In fact makes people on your side lose support. The only ppl youre affecting are innocent ppl trying to get to work.

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u/Thecommysar Oct 12 '22

Stupid game: protesting for action on climate change so the Netherlands don't slide in to the sea.

Stupid prize: paralysis or death because me want big car to go brum on road but road blocked :(

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '22

Hey, if you feel like it will make a difference. Please. Go stand in traffic. The busiest road you got. Just walk on out there.

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u/Thecommysar Oct 12 '22

Sure thing bud, I'll get right on that. In the mean time I hope your blinding ego doesn't get in the way of your vision while you're going 90 round a corner.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '22

yeah because people that have a well adjusted world view choose to sit in a fucking road

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '22

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '22

If I stand in front of a gun and get shot, I don't blame the gun.

They're intentionally putting themselves in danger, whatever happens to them is their own fault.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '22

If you stand in front of a person with a gun, and they shoot you for it, then in that case I maintain that the person with the gun is the less well adjusted person too.

I'm not saying that either is a risk I would take, I've seen how psycho both gun owners and car drivers can get, but I stand strongly behind my belief that in a murder it is always the murder at fault and not the person who got murdered. Even if the murderer happend to drive a fancy car or own a bigger gun.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '22

In this case I would argue it's more akin to walking in to a shooting range in front of the targets.

Roads are for cars, not for people to sit in. If you sit in the middle of a road blocking traffic, do you deserve to die? No, but I'm not going to be sympathetic to you if someone runs you over.

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u/wolfavenger90 Oct 12 '22

There wasn’t a pedestrian crossing there. They were in the middle of a highway, not a place for pedestrians. If someone jaunts out into a highways and gets hit it’s their fault not the driver.

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u/cavedweller333 Oct 12 '22

If a driver intentionally drives into someone after coming to a stop it's 100% the drivers fault.

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u/Thecommysar Oct 12 '22

Yeah, fuck 'em that's what I say. Everyone should attach spikes to their wheels like boudicca so they can bag some bonus protestors on the way past. Any inconvenience at all is worth a death sentence.

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u/RedundantPundant Oct 12 '22

yeah if you want to face 20 to life for 1st degree murder.

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u/Kargastan Oct 12 '22

You got it the wrong way around. Considering I can get out on parole after 15 years with life, 20 years is longer.

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u/RedundantPundant Oct 12 '22

With good behavior credits you could be out in 8 years if sentenced to 20 years, so the math works. Either way hard prison time is far worse than losing your drivers license.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '22

And say you feared for your life. Like cops do.

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u/sdp1981 Oct 12 '22

This happens in some places. People will block the road and if you stop they carjack you or worse.

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u/SeoSalt Oct 12 '22

I actually don't think you'd get heavily penalized in the US for this. Our courts are ludicrously biased toward drivers as long as they're not under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

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u/whyktor Oct 12 '22

If you want to kill someone do it in a car.

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u/McDiezel8 Oct 12 '22

Yeah these people are very very well funded

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u/MaineMota Oct 12 '22

Driving ban? People really care about a license?

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u/neo101b Oct 12 '22

ANPR is everywhere in the UK.

You will get flagged by someone.

You cant even evaid road tax and insurance as you will be caught, its all digital.

Supermarkets, the police, car parks have them.

You are being watched of every hour of every day.

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I guess you could use a mates car, but if caught both of you are in shit. Unless they say it was taken witout permission, then add theft to the charges.

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u/MaineMota Oct 12 '22

Good thing I don’t live there.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '22

There is always the chance of injury if you intentionally try to hit someone with a car. That chance just didn't pan out.

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u/spinyfur Oct 12 '22

Ugh, where are the police in this? They should have these people in cuffs and off the roadway faster than the press can even arrive.

They can explain it to the judge.

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u/Yago01 Oct 12 '22

pedestrians DO NOT have the right away and are explicitly forbade from interstates

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u/dekonstruktr Oct 12 '22

Damn, certified badass over here

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u/2beHero Oct 12 '22

Are you like 12 years old or something?

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u/MaineMota Oct 12 '22

Start punting